The kool aid is working. Right vs wrong is now defined by whether Trump approves or disapproves of it. Affordable health care Trump calls socialism. Living wage again socialism. Equal rights again socialism. Anti racist policies again socialism. A bunch of zombies saying yes sir Mr. President. What is that?

I’ve answered this Question many times. I’ll also answer at the voting box. NO WALL.

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The southern border is too porous, costing Americans economic opportunity. It’s also a security risk, due to drugs, weapons, and other security risks entering through the border. The border wall needs to be built, and taxpayer money should be spent if necessary.

H.R 48 - Rep. Lee’s Blocking Funds For The Southern Border Security.
FYI: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), The southern border is too porous, costing Americans economic opportunity. It’s also a security risk, due to drugs, weapons, and other security risks entering through the border. The border wall needs to be built, and taxpayer money should be spent if necessary.
This is nothing more than Representative Sheila Jackson Lee following the Progressive ideology opposing the construction of of the porous Southern Border between Mexico 🇲🇽 and the USA 🇺🇸.
This resistance to the construction is nothing more than the Democrats wanting to to foster the expansion of their voter base. They’ve no concern for the dramatic consequences of the increasingly flow of addictive narcotics, added by Mexican 🇲🇽 assistance, into the USA 🇺🇸.
Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, be advised that the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) is taking the actions necessary to ensure that displaced persons receive the humanitarian assistance they need. I’m in agreement that the Dept. of Justice (DOJ) should appoint 100 additional immigration judges.
The southern border is too porous, costing Americans economic opportunity. It’s also a security risk, due to drugs, weapons, and other security risks entering through the border. The border wall needs to be built, and taxpayer money should be spent if necessary.
SneakyPete......... 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻. 3*10*19..........

The border wall needs to be built using taxpayer money because it is protecting the taxpayers, why is this question even being asked, that's a rhetorical question, the wall works everywhere else get the politics out of this and protect our country. This is your responsibility Congress do it.

What is House Bill H.R. 48?

This bill would prohibit the use of taxpayer funds to build a barrier to impede travel between Mexico and the U.S. It’d instead require funds to build this barrier to come from the Mexican government. The bill would also authorize the Dept. of Justice (DOJ) to appoint 100 additional immigration judges. Finally, this bill would instruct the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) to take the actions necessary to ensure that displaced persons receive the humanitarian assistance they need.

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Cost of House Bill H.R. 48

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In-Depth: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) reintroduced this bill from the 115th Congress to prohibit the use of taxpayer money to build President Trump’s promised southern border wall. When she introduced this bill in the last Congress, Rep. Jackson Lee said:

“For too long, some in our country have been singularly obsessed with building a wall along our southern border. Unfortunately, the ringleader of these implacable individuals now occupies the highest office in our government. All of them, however, refuse to acknowledge that a border wall is highly ineffective and prohibitively expensive. So committed are they to their delusion, that the president is willing to shut down the government of the United States in pursuit of this folly. Realistic cost estimates of such a wall easily surpass tens of billions of dollars. This is an immense waste of taxpayer money that could be used to make the investments needed to make America better. This is why… I introduced H.R. 7332, the Protect American Taxpayers and Secure Border Act.’ If enacted, the law would prohibit the use of taxpayer dollars to construct the border wall. Moreover, it is a comprehensive piece of legislation that ensures that any wall that is build is paid for by Mexico; directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to make occur certain procedures that improve training of agents of the United States Custom and Border Patrol; increases the number of immigration judges; and, it directs the Secretary of DHS to take all such measures to ensure that refugees at the southern border are given humanitarian assistance. The modern reality of what is occurring at our southern border is shocking, and demands comprehensive legislation. This is why the Protect American Taxpayers and Secure Border Act is a necessary piece of legislation and I urge my colleagues to support it.”

“If you were to create a tier system of insane Democrats, Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas would rank somewhere near the top, but her latest legislation uses one of Trump’s promises as a way to stop the wall from even being built in the first place, making us see a little method in her madness… Democrats, including its sponsors, haven’t really said much about the legislation, oddly enough, but it’s unlikely that the bill would actually get any traction. It’s highly likely that it was crafted as a way to troll the Trump administration.”

Of Note: The idea of making Mexico pay for the construction of a southern border wall was one of President Donald Trump’s major campaign promises during the 2016 election. According to The New York Times, Trump has repeated this promise “hundreds of times” and said it’d be “so easy” to fulfill. Trump has variously suggested compelling Mexico to make a one-time payment of $5-10 billion, deducting costs from Mexican foreign aid, impound remittance payments, increasing fees on temporary visas issued to Mexican CEOs and diplomats, increasing fees on border crossing cards, increasing fees on NAFTA worker visa from Mexico, and increasing fees at ports of entry from Mexico to the U.S.

“When — during the campaign, I would say, ‘Mexico is going to pay for it.’ Obviously, I never said this and I never meant they’re going to write out a check. I said, ‘They’re going to pay for it.’ They are. They are paying for it with the incredible deal we made, called the United States, Mexico, and Canada USMCA deal.”

In recent polling by Quinnipiac University, only 41 percent of Americans supported a southern border wall (down from 43 percent in the previous poll), while 55 percent opposed it. Declaring a national emergency to direct the wall’s construction — an idea that Trump has floated in recent weeks — has polled even more poorly than the wall alone. A Monmouth University poll found that 64 percent of Americans would disapprove of Trump using emergency power to direct military funds to build a border wall, while only 34 percent would approve of the move.

Protect American Taxpayers and Secure Border Act

Official Title

To prohibit taxpayer funds from being used to build a wall between Mexico and the United States, and for other purposes.

The kool aid is working. Right vs wrong is now defined by whether Trump approves or disapproves of it. Affordable health care Trump calls socialism. Living wage again socialism. Equal rights again socialism. Anti racist policies again socialism. A bunch of zombies saying yes sir Mr. President. What is that?

H.R 48 - Rep. Lee’s Blocking Funds For The Southern Border Security.
FYI: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), The southern border is too porous, costing Americans economic opportunity. It’s also a security risk, due to drugs, weapons, and other security risks entering through the border. The border wall needs to be built, and taxpayer money should be spent if necessary.
This is nothing more than Representative Sheila Jackson Lee following the Progressive ideology opposing the construction of of the porous Southern Border between Mexico 🇲🇽 and the USA 🇺🇸.
This resistance to the construction is nothing more than the Democrats wanting to to foster the expansion of their voter base. They’ve no concern for the dramatic consequences of the increasingly flow of addictive narcotics, added by Mexican 🇲🇽 assistance, into the USA 🇺🇸.
Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, be advised that the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) is taking the actions necessary to ensure that displaced persons receive the humanitarian assistance they need. I’m in agreement that the Dept. of Justice (DOJ) should appoint 100 additional immigration judges.
The southern border is too porous, costing Americans economic opportunity. It’s also a security risk, due to drugs, weapons, and other security risks entering through the border. The border wall needs to be built, and taxpayer money should be spent if necessary.
SneakyPete......... 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻. 3*10*19..........

The need to declare a fake emergency to get funds says it all! No taxpayer money for this campaign promise. I didn’t vote for it then and I don’t vote for it now.
Increased border security, yes, but get engagement from those on the front lines and figure out what works in our modern times. I’ve always lived near borders - both southern and northern. Why one and not the other? Both have their problems!

The border wall needs to be built using taxpayer money because it is protecting the taxpayers, why is this question even being asked, that's a rhetorical question, the wall works everywhere else get the politics out of this and protect our country. This is your responsibility Congress do it.

Building a wall along the border will do little to impede illegal immigration. If we are serious about doing this, we will instead hire more border patrol agents, use existing technologies like motion sensors, web cams, drones, etc. Confiscating citizen’s land and building a wall is not a good or even logical answer to the problem. It’s just a political stunt.

Wasn't Mexico supposed to pay for the wall? (Narrator voice: We all knew he'd never be able to pull it off.) Seriously, though, no taxpayer money should go to this poorly conceived, unnecessary pipe dream. Put the kibosh on it and move on to more useful legislation.

Over and over, conservatives have said that Trump is just keeping a campaign promise and since he “won” the election he’s “entitled to build it. This bill just holds Trump to his promise- his whole promise. It’s a hell of a lot better than doing an end run around Congress’s power of the purse. As the constitution says Article 1; Section 9: No money shall be drawn from the treasury except as Appropriated by law... Not by a President declaring an emergency he “didn’t have to do” because Congress didn’t move when he said jump.

It becomes evident time and time again that the taxpayers do not want the wall. We are not voting you into congress to ignore our voices. I want my tax dollars to go toward initiatives that are not just catchy campaign slogans, but instead will actually help our nation take steps forward.

The federal government has very few legitimate powers, but has appropriated vast unconstitutional powers illegitimately. This is why we have been suffering from legislative tyranny for several decades. It’s ironic that we now have a member of congress attempting to block funding for one of the few legitimate duties which government is expected to perform, and which the executive branch is obligated to execute.
NOTE; Government has only one legitimate purpose as defined by the constitution, and as intended by the founding fathers. That purpose is to protect our god given inalienable rights (personal liberty, personal sovereignty, property) and to defend against those that seek to take it from us (both foreign and domestic).

What if I want my tax dollars to go the wall? I mean all I keep hearing from Democrats and crybabies is how “I don’t want my tax money going to that wall” well what if that is how I want my money spent?
LIKE MY TAKE? GIVE ME A FOLLOW

Build the damn wall already! Americans are tired of our Federal government letting anyone that crosses our border illegally into our country and the providing them with more benefits and rights than legal US Citizens. If they cross illegally, ship them back to the most southern border of the country they left. They .must not be set free in our country. Also we must end birthright citizenship for illegals. If here legally, then it would apply, illegally, it does not. Read & understand our constitution!

Our southern border does not pose a security risk. No barrier wall is needed. Our immigration laws need work and funds are needed for asylum seeking families coming from countries where the US contributed to the destabilization of their governments.

I would rather have my tax money mandatorily taken out to build a wall the entire area along the southern border then pay for welfare for illegals. Sheila Jackson doesn’t have a clue what she’s talking about. The wall is to protect all of us regardless of your political opinions.Preservation of our country is at stake by allowing illegals who bring crime drugs Mayham and disease. We have enough issues that need to be addressed overseas without the threats infiltrating our country. The northern border along Canada is also an issue. I don’t want to live in a Third World country with people who don’t speak English are uneducated and expect a handout from the taxpayer. It cost our country a lot more to pay for the benefits that we should not offer to people who come in here illegally than it would to pay for the wall. Not only should we have a wall we should electrify it and if there’s any water surrounding area we use alligators and snipers. It’s time to be firm direct and relentless on this issue.